When you come over a ramp and go into an abyss, you would shrink back from it. You would lean back and that would somersault you backwards. But you have to lean into it. You have to do the unnatural. When you are really flying far, you are not a human anymore, you transform yourself. You transmute yourself into a bird.

— Werner Herzog in Thomas von Steinaecker, Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer, 2022